Biography of Hanna Reitsch (1912-1979)

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Hanna Reitsch is definitely among Germany's most famous female pilots. During her lifetime she has flown in nearly every (German) aircraft conceivable, setting many records along the way. Yet her personality also had a dark side: she was a fanatical Nazi loyal to the party and in support of Total War. It is the reason Adolf Hitler referred to her has his "favourite pilot."
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@larsbackstrom3036 3 года назад

Perhaps after covering Hanna Reitsch you could also cover the second most famous German test-pilot, Melitta Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg? She was also sister-in-law of Claus von Stauffenberg.

@HoH 3 года назад

Hi Lars, that is a fantastic idea I hadn't thought of yet. Many thanks, you can be sure I will create a video about her in the future.

@garycyganek1228 2 года назад

True

@HK-gm8pe Год назад

she was an amazing woman... just finished book about her

@MadeleineTakam 10 месяцев назад

You missed the most important part of her life. The part she wanted to be remembered for. She was considered an African Freedom Fighter. She was mother of the Ghanian Air Force. She believed in a united Africa, without constant intimidation and theft from the former colonial powers. She only left Africa in late 1966.

@eshelly4205 2 года назад

She was incredibly talented. As a pilot myself I can say that her intuition and flying instincts were astonishing

@HK-gm8pe Год назад

yes but she was also nazi until her death.....and holocaust denier

@luxembourgishempire2826 3 года назад

I never knew he had a favourite pilot tbh. Can't wait to watch this video! Keep up the good work House of History!

@Four-of-Six 3 года назад

After the war she flew in India, helped to start a gliding school there. Flew in Ghana and was an flight-instructor there . Became good friends with President Kwame Nkrumah....... Reitsch's attitudes to race underwent a change. "Earlier in my life, it would never have occurred to me to treat a black person as a friend or partner ..."

@sherirobinson5112 3 года назад

Never had heard of her before another big thumbs up for content 👍. You really proving my knowledge of this historical time much more inadequate than I had believed. Good job!

@iatsechannel5255 3 года назад

Nice work. However you got Hanna's life threatening crash wrong. The landing gear on the Me 163 was designed to fall away on take off. On her nearly fatal flight it did not, but hung on the the bottom of the aircraft creating drag causing her subsequent stall and accident. Her face had to be completely reconstructed. Her autobiography: The Sky is My Kingdom is most enlightening.

@michellebrown4903 Год назад

Yeah , listening to the dialogue, l was thinking 🤔, wasn't the undercarriage designed to fall away ? It landed back , on a central skid .

@user-il4br8du1s Год назад

Caught that too.

@theo.k 3 года назад

Fascinating as always. Thanks for sharing this.

@canthama2703 3 года назад

As usual Oscar we learn a lot from you, was not aware of the human gliding V1 project, that was a treat. Thank you.

@HoH 3 года назад

Thanks, glad you found it interesting!

@thewatcher5271 3 года назад

The Movie Operation Crossbow (1965) Depicts It Pretty Well.

@plane_simple 3 года назад

6:04 This picture, subtitled" Hanna on top of a manned V-1 rocket", is from a movie about Hanna Reitsch, showing german actress Barbara Rütting as Hanna Reitsch...

@user-njyzcip 3 года назад

I take the pictures from this channel with a grain of salt, especially aviation ones. Oscar isn't the most knowledgeable with this department

@alexvonderbecke5343 Год назад

The photo at 2:40 was taken by my late, Great Uncle, Heinrich von der Becke.

@yaragi 3 года назад

I really enjoy your work! You have an even excellent 'touch' and make watching feel enjoyable nevertheless reminding of the grim side of people. Thanks & keep up the good work!

@HoH 3 года назад

Thanks Yaragi, much appreciated!

@SgtThor 3 года назад

Thank you for the video :)

@HoH 3 года назад

My pleasure!

@marknelson6777 3 года назад

9th Roman Legion, that dissapeared.

@HoH 3 года назад

That is a really good and interesting suggestion, it is on my to-do list.

@MrBrznak 3 года назад

Thank you , i recently looked up hannas story because i was curious about a street in my village in northern germany Hanna Reitsch Straße , next to streets named after manfred von richthofen and werner baumbach

@HistoriaenCeluloide 3 года назад

Very interesting as always. Have you already talk about his favorite director, Leni Riefenstahl?

@kmcd1000 3 года назад

Excellent. You are becoming my favorite history channel.

@HoH 3 года назад

Glad to hear it!

@christopherthrawn1333 2 года назад

RIP Lady. Extraordinary beautiful woman.

@crazyblazeyblaze7736 2 года назад

Great video sir, thank you

@beauregardrippey5508 3 года назад

cant really blame him... she'd be my favorite pilot too.

@user-mc2gf2rt1k 3 года назад

00q

@beauregardrippey5508 3 года назад

@@user-mc2gf2rt1k 🤷🏼‍♂

@thenablade858 3 года назад

Go to horny jail, sir

@FakeMoonRocks 2 года назад

A life story a hundred times more interesting than Amelia Earhart's.

@sim-sam 2 года назад

There's a movie called "Der Untergang" or "Downfall" that portrays the last days or hours in the Führerbunker. At around 1:14:00 the characters of Reitsch and the Ritter von Greim appear, and Hitler (played masterfully by Bruno Ganz, excellent!) promotes subsequently Greim to the Feldmarschall der Luftwaffe (not knowing, that Berlin is about to fall)... Interesting sequence in an interesting piece of cinema...

@BlueFish-kq9fh 2 года назад

That was an excellent movie ("Der Untergang"). I've watched it several times, in fact I have it in my home DVD collection. I distinctly remember the scene you are citing here (Reitsch and von Greim in the bunker with Hitler). Hitler was sounding all gloomy and defeated and mumbling. Reitsch cried out to him in a burst of emotion: "Mein Fuehrer, bewahren Sie unser Glauben im Endsieg. Sie sind unser Fuehrer -- fuehren Sie uns und wir werden Ihnen folgen". ("My Fuehrer, defend our faith in our final victory. You are our leader -- lead us and we will follow").

@stevewaltzer3230 3 года назад

As for the Komet, the problem was that the landing gear would not separate from the aircraft..Not the other way around.

@seanmong9524 3 года назад

Wunderbar! Great video and effort! The achievements of German scientists, aviators, industrialists, academics etc between WWI and WWII are generally downplayed and ignored by the victorious allies in the Western postwar narrative. These incredible men and women did their best for their beloved country and their contributions to humanity’s technological and cultural advancements should be remembered. Put aside your political prejudices (e.g., Nazism) and celebrated their achievements in chemistry, engineering, jet engines, rocketry etc.

@dickyt1318 2 года назад

the projects that she was involved with such as the V1 used slave labour so however you would like to gloss-over matters 'these incredible men and women doing their best for their beloved country' were complicit in war crimes, acts of inhumanity & cruelty.

@edmedlin2109 3 года назад

Great work as usual! My suggestion is the Night Witches, the female Red Army pilots

@ernstvandijk6342 2 года назад

Leuke video!

@yesitreallyisme 3 года назад

You said the under carriage on the Komet broke off, they didn't have an undercarriage they had a sled with wheels on that was released by the pilot when taking off. Hanna lost all electrical power shortly after taking off and she tried in vain to dislodge the sled to no avail and had to land with it attached. Thats how she suffered her injuries.

@robert100xx 3 года назад

I was going to correct his inaccuracy re the Komet Crash that put Hanna in hospital for 5 months. Glad to see you saw it also.

@yesitreallyisme 3 года назад

@@robert100xx If you're going to tell history, it should be told as it was. It's easy to research as she says it all in her final interview before she died.

@grumpyoldfart1945 3 года назад

What about Hans Bauer? He was Hitler’s personal pilot for many years.

@dungeonrat 3 года назад

How about a video on Wilhelm Canaris?

@mchrome3366 3 года назад

Thank you.

@paxofpayne 3 года назад

Fascinating Is there a movie about her? could you do something on Ricard Pearse from Newzealand, it's said he flew 18 mths before the Wright brothers. and as all ways love your work, never a bad video

@majorsquanch7149 3 года назад

I asked and you delivered 👍

@Aeyekay0 3 года назад

I like how cover cover the very lesson know almost forgotten pieces of history

@peanutarbuckle9629 3 года назад

Good Video.

@HoH 3 года назад

Thanks!

@mancroft 3 года назад

Thank you for these vids. Always learn something new. Never heard of Nazi kamikazes before.

@AmadeusHammerer Год назад

It was just an idea that was never realized. But in the last days of war, the German airforce had "Rammflieger". These pilots used Me 109 to fly into allied bombers. They were not commanded to die, the idea was, that they jump out the plane after ramming a bomber. But this doesn't work very often.

@PremierHistory 3 года назад

I must say I thought Hermann Göring was his favourite pilot

@persistentapparartionkitty5830 3 года назад

He added too much weight to any plane he would step foot on...

@828enigma6 3 года назад

No, the passenger count would have to be reduced by five because of his girth.

@tonnywildweasel8138 4 месяца назад

Remarkable Lady for sure. Thank you very much for this video, appreciate it a lot. Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱, TW.

@sirdudleynightshade8747 3 года назад

How about a video about Erna Pranz who I believe ran the operations of the BDM?

@joeypinter9011 5 месяцев назад

cool vid

@nutsackmania 2 года назад

nice!

@blackfeathercrafts Год назад

She was my great aunt.

@Tiberiotertio 3 года назад

Odd that in an interview from 1976 she talks about that Me163 accident, only she says the landing gear (wheels) did not come off as they where supposed to - so what is it? Take off without wheels as you say, or take off with wheels as Hanna Reitsch says? I tend to believe her as she was there when it happened.

@ligayamatira2164 3 года назад

Do the video about Benito Mussolini and the March on Rome

@lablackzed 3 года назад

She was a small woman but she had the heart of a lion and more balls than a lot of men she deserves a lot of respect for all of her achievements .

@MrBCA701 Год назад

Yes she did..always remember “Dynamite comes in small packages”

@CaseyHarrisSr Год назад

An amazing pilot, Casey

@HoH Год назад

Hi Casey, long time no see. I hope you & Chickadee are doing good. 😄

@DavidJones-pv8zu 3 года назад

Eric (Winkle) Brown thought she was the best; and he would know.

@mrhamburger6936 2 года назад

This little lady has more balls than most men

@Rickasaurus 3 месяца назад

4:35 WRONG! Hanna could NOT jettison the undercarriage which made the glider difficult to land due to the increase drag.

@theswede5402 3 года назад

You forgot the terrible tragedy of her entire family comitting suicide when they learned they would be deported to east germany under soviet control...

@Bolivar2012able 3 года назад

Met Her! Political opposites, but a Very Gutsy Lady.

@juliangeen5248 3 года назад

Alternative reason she dropped out of university in 1932 is because she got pregnant. Hanna Reitsch and Werner von Braun (supposedly) had an affair in the early '30s and (supposedly) had a child in 1932. Hanna Reitsch' child ended up having an affair with the husband (notorious grifter prince Bernard von Lippe-Biesterfeld) of the queen of the Netherlands. The child of that affair (1949) is an aunt of the current king Willem (IV) Alexander of the Netherlands. @House of a History you might wanna check out this prince Bernhard, interesting chap to do a future episode about.

@juliangeen5248 3 года назад

Edit: Alicia, the affair child of prince Bernard, was born 1952, not 1949.

@jameshardin4895 8 месяцев назад

My father a CSM, talked to Hannah Reitsch, who flew the Me 163, he called her on the phone, wanted to visit her and talk, and get to sign her book. 2 weeks later she was dead, took 25 years for the German Government to admit she committed suicide. When i hear it, i said to my father, maybe you killed the last Nazi, pushed her over the edge with your phone call... he stared at me for 5 seconds, and no answer. He also talked to A. Speer a bunch of times. A Jewish Banker, who lived next to us in Heidelberg, use to wave every morning and say Hi to my dad, when he heard my father was visiting Speer, he wouldn't look at him anymore. But my father actually hated the G-- D-- Nazi's, his words, said it once to me, it was a shock, because he never cursed, never used the N word. He was also a History teacher, and that's why he was talking to them. Don't know why my father didn't write a book, or something... I had an inkling he was a CIA agent or something connected to them, looking back, and it slipped out from my Aunt one time a few years ago, and then pretended she didn't say it... my father was kind of secretive man. Would have liked to know what he was up to... and in the end, Covid got him at 87...

@jeffkujawa803 8 месяцев назад

That’s a pretty interesting story ….sometimes the phrase “it’s a small world”…and in this case it applies …thank you for sharing

@shelbynamels973 2 года назад

I always thought it a shame that in the west there is so much attention given to Amelia Earhart, with hardly anybody knowing about Reitsch. Reitsch'ts accomplishments in the field of aviation, both helicopter and fixed-wing, put to shame the exploits of an aviatrix who in the end lost her bearings.

@AmadeusHammerer Год назад

If you're interested in more stories of female German pilots during WW2 look for information about Beat Uhse and Melitta Gräfin Schenck von Stauffenberg. But search carefully, you'll find many sex related sites looking for Beate Uhse because she founded a mail order company for sex books, toys and later videos. (That's why mot Germans know her name XD ). Melitta Gräfin Schenck von Stauffenberg in not very famous, which is a shame in my eyes. It's one of many tragic storys that happened during WW2. She was an important rngineer for airplane engines and did most of test flights herself. Her last name sounds familiar to you? Yes, she was married to one of the Stauffenbergs that tried to kill Hitler with a bomb. Most of the people that were involved this, were murdered by the Regime (even Erwin Rommel). Her husband was not killed because Melitta said, she would stop working, when they do this. So they put him in a kz close to her and many of her test flights were over this kz, so they can see each other and her husband didn't give up. During one her flights in an unarmed plane she was shot down by an allied pilot and died. Her husband survived the war. I think there were many more girls and women in positions where you would expect a man. Unfortunenately it is very difficult to find information about them. You are called a nazi very quick in Germany, when you try to find out things about history.

@salsheikh4508 3 года назад

The manned rockets look like the old school Battle Star Galactica "good guy" fighters....

@a-b.e.6663 8 месяцев назад

Köszönöm a feltöltést, kérném magyarul. Egy idős ember aki nem ért angolul. Laci

@hojoj.1974 3 года назад

Excellent video on a topic new to me. How about a video on Sven Hassel, author.

@paraguaymike5159 3 года назад

What an interesting woman!

@jeronym1866 2 месяца назад

Loyal person....good

@welshcaesar 2 года назад

History’s greatest female pilot.

@yuppy1967 3 года назад

A very impressive woman!

@barbaraleckie5804 3 года назад

She is an inspiration to all women . I enjoy watching your site ,but pleases refrain from talking about " her dark side" . What right do you have to make this statemen ? She was a very brave German lady , with more courage than all of her critics put together . She committed no crime and as a German citizen tried to assist her country in time of war.

@miloslavsrb8185 3 года назад

Above all, Hanna was perhaps the greatest German patriot, willing to sacrifice her life for her homeland and leave what she loved the most - flying. It is a shame that he does not have a commemorative plaque or statue in Germany today.

@edwardjj4224 3 года назад

Very BRAVE WOMAN I must say that Thanks Utube for posting this video God bless You all

@wayneschenk5512 2 года назад

Though she test flew aircraft for Hitler if she had flown in battle the outcome could have become different for her.

@Thomas-lk9ok 3 года назад

let's STOP demonizing Hanna!!

@squirrels24seven 3 года назад

@Bananabread511 3 года назад

Was there any Irish support for Germany in ww2

@madzen112 Месяц назад

If she hadn't flown for Adolf Hitler, she would have been an aviation legend, like Amelia Earhart

@Rickasaurus 3 месяца назад

GOAT

@jphilology7357 3 года назад

Dear Hannah, Thank you1

@paultracey8857 3 года назад

Amazing woman

@MaLoDe1975 Год назад

Women received iron crosses allrwady in the wars against napoleon.

@johnmilonas9143 3 года назад

Hitler's favorite pilot was the one that flew is plane.

@jamesthornton9399 3 года назад

Not killed by the Allies???

@larry1824 Год назад

Makes Earhart look like an amateur🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

@laszlokovacs6154 3 года назад

Who’s behind this channel? What nationality is the narrator? What’s his name?

@FriedrichBarb 3 года назад

I think he's Hungarian

@user-nn1ss4oj4u Год назад

Напишіть на якому кладовищі вона похована

@johnmcentegart007 2 года назад

Homage

@hamletthaus3046 7 месяцев назад

What amazes me is how history always judges the losers. Putting the shoe on the other foot per se the USSR loses the Second World War? Germany would have been seen in that same light. There is no dark side. Just another side.

@dr.migilitoloveless2385 4 месяца назад

She was pretty

@andrewemery8495 3 года назад

Your photo of a 'helicopter' is not a helicopter, it is an auto gyro. Totally different.

@HoH 3 года назад

It is the first prototype of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the "often considered first practical, functional helicopter." You're right it originated from Heinrich Focke's initial work on gyroplanes. From: www.airvectors.net/avheli_1.html

@Slithey7433 2 года назад

I believe you’re wrong. The craft Hannah flew had powered rotors and was capable of hovering. An autogyro cannot hover.

@peace-now 3 года назад

She was a brave German.

@rimshot2270 3 года назад

An extraordinary woman whose talents and courage were wasted in the fanatical service to an unworthy and evil cause.

@openthekimono6195 3 года назад

That is not a/her dark side... check the facts!

@fullmetalalchemist9126 3 года назад

I can see why 😏

@erikakat1812 2 года назад

Staunch supporter of half moustache eh.. .and if ya not??...ya may well fly into a Bermuda triangle locally...a time to be proud, a time to be practical....she was practical...my opinion

@cedricliggins7528 3 года назад

She had an affair with Kwame Nkrumah!!!

@828enigma6 3 года назад

Who? You know this how?

@patrickmulroney9452 2 года назад

@@828enigma6 also she was welcomed by j.f.k. at the white house!

@tomasparkington4400 3 года назад

Hanna, was a better pilot than Amelia earhart ,amelia was better at crashing planes.

@scrubbwhite291 Год назад

That's a really woke video you put out there. Taking stabs at her political convictions.

@j.langer5949 2 года назад

The dark side? It is perfectly normal to sympathise with National Socialism. On the contrary, I find it childish, naive and even infantile for anyone to reduce political regimes to "good" and "evil".